[markomalley]

This is a bad idea on so many different levels...

[mc5cents]

DEFUND THE EPA!!!! Then move on to the Dept. of Edu. and Energy.

Viva the 10th Amendment!

[Immerito]

What a great way to keep the prices of corn, meat, gas, and products in general down!

(Does this really need a sarc tag?)

[milwguy]

Not the first of which is that a lot of people will be too dumb to realize their cars are not equipped to handle the extra ethanol crap in their gas.

With the Republicans in control here in cheesehead nation, I don’t think we will be seeing 15% crap at any of our gas stations. As much as Obama wants to whore out to ADM, the people ain’t gonna put up with craptacular 15% gas.

[Red Badger]

[Brett66]

Awesome! Who needs gas? We can run our cars on cronyism!

[KarlInOhio]

How about requiring the gas stations to list their alcohol percentages so I know where to shop and where to avoid. Ethanol contains about 30% less energy than gasoline, so 10% ethanol should drop mileage by about 3% and 15% ethanol should drop it by 4.5%.

[Sacajaweau]

I have a 2003...and I’m pretty sure it says the limit is 10%.

[puppypusher]

It makes you wonder whether the EPA is purposely trying to destroy all of the older vehicles so that more of these electric buggies will be sold.

I wouldn’t put it past them and it has nothing to do with protecting the environment.

When are the republicans going to defund that agency?

[freedomfiter2]

Apparently, people were getting too many mpgs.

[wk4bush2004]

Well, it doesn’t matter to me, because my car is a flex-fuel vehicle, and can run with ethanol blends up to 85%! There’s just hardly any E85 pumps around here in rural Missouri, though. Nearest ones are in Springfield.

[Gaffer]

Had two Hondas, my SIL has one. The catalytic 2nd stage O2 sensors kept alarming. Ethanol can damage wide band O2 sensors. My solution was to not use any gas that had ethanol....problem solved. Corn is for eating, not burning (unless you forget the popcorn in the MW). Screw ethanol.

[Skeez]

http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/may2009/bw20090514_058678.htm

This sums it up nicely

[sickoflibs]

Not only did GWB start us on this ethanol disaster in his energy bill compromise but that bill also outlawed normal light bulbs.

So now you are forced to buy engine fuel full of water that destroys your auto engine, but you must (in the future) buy the toxic florescent light bulbs that will poison your home and family if broken.

Obama certainly got a running start with GWB and Senate republicans progressive policies. I guess this my Bush rant for the week:)

[Bedford Forrest]

Aside from trashing the environment and wasting huge quantities of diesel fuel and petrochemical-based fertilizer to grow corn, what will this do to our vehicles? Boehner better get after the EPA fascists real fast on this one, otherwise he is part of the problem.

[PogySailor]

So stations have to add a seperate tank and pumps just for this? What a waste of resources...

Redline out the EPA in the next budget.

[sigzero]

That’s not going to be good for my motorcycle’s gas tank.

[Allegra]

Time to defund and dissolve the EPA.

Well, it was time to do that a long time ago, but no time like the present, hmmmm?

I don't care how many bureaucrats it puts out of work - these creeps have done far too much damage to the private sector.

[Qbert]

And to think Obama wrote an op-ed in the WSJ about how we need to get rid of bad regulations just THREE DAYS AGO!:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703396604576088272112103698.html

[LibLieSlayer]

188,000 marinas have refused to sell 15% corn juice... just say no to any ethanol... it kills our economy... it kills our energy independence and it destroys our food supplies.

LLS

[Defend Liberty]

Regulating the environment is not an enumerated power granted to Congress in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution! The EPA is unconstitutional and must be abolished!